28 January 2018. On January 27, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces, backed up by the Russian Aerospace Forces, captured the village of Tell al-Waz in the southwestern Aleppo countryside, north of Abu Duhur airbase, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). During its advance the SAA killed and injured several fighters of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).